Frost is often thought of as an “easy” poet—unchallenging, a purveyor of pretty pictures and American Nostalgia. Readers who go to him for that won’t be disappointed. He wanted to be a popular poet. He wanted to make a living out of poetry, no mean feat. He uses the forms people are used to instead of free verse. BUT WAIT! (as they say on the tackier sort of TV commercial) THERE’S MORE! Beneath that carefully contrived surface, Frost is supremely a Modern Poet, grappling with the drama and dislocations of the 20th Century intellectual. He can gaze into the void with the best of them. Beneath that layer is a level of religious affirmation. I want people to get the library of American Poetry volume: Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays. Plays? Yes. Few go to them these days, but the plays and his two “Masques” contain a wealth of insight. He’s a Heavyweight. (Limit 20)